Both Pennington and Baker deal with the issues surrounding Canadian trade agreements with the United States during the latter half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. However Pennington and Baker take vastly different viewpoints on the issue. Whereas Pennington takes the view that Laurier's Liberals were hoping for some sort of moderate trade agreement with the United States and support for a commercial Union, Baker deals with reciprocity and its ties to anti-Americanism. In addition, both authors tend to imply that the greater underlying question resulted into which economic orbit Canada would tie itself. MacDonald's Conservatives favouring to maintain the traditional economic alignment to Great Britain while the Liberals …show more content…
While both Pennington and Baker are covering the 1891 and 1911 elections respectively by looking at the two different parties, the Liberals and Conservatives, both are quick to point out, if not consciously, that making free trade the key election played to MacDonald's, and the Conservatives' strengths, while taking advantage of Laurier's, and the Liberals', weaknesses surrounding free trade. The combination of the articles serve as a direct contrast between the Liberal and Conservatives during both the 1891 and 1911 elections, due to the fact that free trade, in even the smallest of possible formats, became the central election issue. According to Pennington there was a clear division within the Liberal Party itself over this issue, with the intellectuals within the Liberal Party aware that even pushing any form of free trade would be fine line between in-acting legislation that was enough to satisfy the biggest proponents of free trade, the farmers in the rapidly expanding western provinces, while …show more content…
While Laurier argued that Canada could complete effectively compete against the United States, popular opinion in either eastern or western Canada was not supportive of entering into free trade with the United States and its larger industrial capacity. As a result support for the Liberals was not as strong as what the Liberals might expect due to the fact that for many Western Canadians the fear of being assimilated into, or overrun by, the greater American population and America's greater industrial base was greater than potentially seeing some economic benefit offered from either reciprocity or a Commercial Union or free trade in any format. According to Baker this played into the Conservatives' hands due to the Liberals' making this the election's central issue because it formed a stark contrast between the Liberals and the Conservatives. The Liberal policy made many Canadians anxious about their political, social and economic futures while the Conservatives offered a clear alternative through allowing Canadians to stay on the same economic policy, and by extension guaranteeing the social and political futures of those who were concerned about the Liberal policy which turned out to be the sizeable majority of the Canadian
Liberal Reforms II Charles Booth An example of an individual who did impact on the Liberal Reform period from 1901-11 was Charles Booth, a social reformer who worked to document the lives and living conditions of the poor working class in London. Booth did not agree with the previously accepted view propagated by the COS that the poor were responsible for their own condition. Instead he followed on from progressives, such as Henry Mayhew, arguing that poverty was caused by circumstance. He also ‘rejected the socialist argument that the capitalist system itself was the cause of poverty’ .
The 1912 Election and the Power of Progressivism: A Brief History with Documents by Brett Flehinger is about the four Presidential candidates during the election of 1912, their political parties and campaigns. The book shows how opposed each candidate 's platform was and which problems the candidates agreed on. The book has documents from this time to further aid in understanding what exactly was happening. None of the candidates, however, were as different as Theodore Roosevelt and his predecessor, William Howard Taft. Their platforms and ideas regarding trusts, direct democracy and courts and the constitution differed greatly, whilst they agreed on the important issue of women 's suffrage.
From 1867 to today, Canada has had twenty-three prime ministers, each of whom helped build and improve Canada. An analysis of former prime ministers William Lyon Mackenzie King, Lester Bowles Pearson, and Pierre Elliott Trudeau of Canada during the WWII, the fifties and sixties, and contemporary Canada, respectively, shows that Canadians should be proud of their nation and the people who led and shaped Canada to what it is today. During WWII, the leader seen as the greatest Canadian prime minister by scholars and academics in Maclean’s surveys guided Canada through the turbulent time. William Lyon Mackenzie King made many accomplishments during his time as the longest-serving prime minister, from 1921-1926, 1926-1930, and 1935-1948, and
“ Their policies [ the Conservative party’s] appeared confused and impractical. “ (Fellows and Wells, 2013). This is perhaps most appearant in Diefenbaker’s ambitions to make Canada less dependent on the U.S. economically. Diefenbaker announced an ambitious plan that would allow Canada to move 15% of it’s trade from the U.S. to Britain. Ideally the plan addresses the growing discomfort that Canadian citizens had with the U.S.’s increasing role in their country.
Petro-Canada’s Impact on the Canadian Economy Throughout the 1970s, economic relationships and dynamics worldwide in the energy economy experienced rapid changes, resulting in the incredibly volatile and unstable oil price climate. The issue with energy became a widely debated topic between Trudeau’s liberal government and its critics. During these years, the petroleum industry in Canada was dominated by foreign control, which was mostly American.
Though many nowadays criticize his use of “the War Measures Act” outside of wartime, it is hard to believe that anybody could have dealt with the efficiency and satisfaction that Pierre Elliott Trudeau did. Without the skillful leadership of Pierre Trudeau, the FLQ could have started an even larger divide amongst French and English Canadians, possibly even that of a political border if Quebec separatist movements had their way. Despite the Defence and External Affairs departments duties of representing all of Canada, none of the two were bilingual before Pierre Trudeau headed into the office. Pierre Trudeau in
Canada is now known to be a diverse, multicultural, bilingual and inclusive nation largely as a result of his work. Pierre Elliott Trudeau also believed in an equal Canada for all, he is primarily the one to introduce rights and freedoms to the citizens of Canada. While some view Pierre Trudeau as impulsive, for enforcing the War Measures Act, Trudeau enacted this for the protection of Canadian citizens against radical extremist and his actions were more rational than impulsive for the situation that had suddenly occurred. Pierre Trudeau was one of Canada’s greatest Prime Minister’s, who’s impact fundamentally changed the course of the nation by introducing multiculturalism, for introducing the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and for paradoxically upholding democracy by strong action during the October Crisis.
Topic I. Mill offers one very simple principle to determine the legitimacy of state interference: the Harm Principle. This principle is meant to exclude paternalistic interferences, i.e., interferences to prevent harm to self or to others who voluntarily associate with you. What are Mill’s arguments for the Harm Principle and against paternalistic interferences? What is the strongest objection that someone who favors paternalistic interferences might offer against Mill and in favor of such interferences? In the end, are paternalistic interferences justified?
Throughout Canada’s history with numerous Prime Ministers, many would argue that William Lyon Mackenzie King was the best one. To be a good Prime Minister, one must be able to connect with the people that they are in charge of and they need to have a good understanding of different cultures in the society at hand. Throughout the course of King’s reign as Prime Minister over Canada, he made significant impacts upon numerous aspects for the country. He was a successful Prime Minister because his accomplishments during his debut as Prime Minister, his steps in Canadian autonomy and conscription, his determination over his political career, relations within the country, and finally his initiative in spending numerous efforts into accomplish
Canada’s economy has undergone continuous changes throughout the years. Many of these developments include newly established acts, economical, and political reforms; the core of what has shaped the country into what it is today. More prominently, since the 1950s, Canada’s identity as a nation is stronger and more defined due to many of these growths. One can clearly see this from the following examples; the welfare state, the St. Lawrence Seaway, and NAFTA.
John Lauritz Larson the professor of history at Purdue University explores the captivating consequences that result from the market revolution in early America. With a passion for the matter and creative thinking, his research leads him to unanticipated consequences that plunge Americans with the transition to capitalism that relates economic change to the liberty and self-determination of individuals. According to Larson, there are remnants that are still relevant in history today. The mass industrial democracy that is placed in the modern United States bears very little resemblance to the past which was a simple agrarian republic. All because of the market revolution, the transformation resulting in the tangled foundation we know today
Major political players of the time included Henri Bourassa, a French Canadian nationalist, whom preached to English Canadians that their participation and commitment to the Empire was mistaken. To in which Canada shouldn 't be involved to a distant Europe
William Lyon Mackenzie King, a man of glory, forever changed Canada’s constitution during the tumultuous nineteenth century and resolved all difficulties Canada faced on its way to becoming a strong, independent, and autonomous nation. His contributions and sanctions targeted all factors at the time and had interrelated effects on the construction of Canada. Unlike other Canadian politicians, King handled every crisis with thorough planning and achieved promising outcomes from unsolvable problems. It is without a doubt that King was the most influential figure in Canada’s development. His role in the autonomy, economic development, and social stability stands as solid evidence of the pioneering impacts he had on Canada’s advancement.
New Nationalism vs. New Freedom In the 1912 election for president there were four candidates, two were Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Both had reforms that they placed as the center of their campaigns. Roosevelt’s reform was New Nationalism and Wilson’s was New Freedom.
For a long time the debates had been going about how was the better prime minister of Canada. On the the top of most lists of best prime ministers are Mackenzie King and Sir John A. Macdonald. For example, according to the Expert Survey that was made in 2013 “Laurier came first, Macdonald second, and King third, but the difference in their overall scores was negligible”. Both prime ministers had a strong vision of the country that helped shaped Canada to become the country it is today(in 2015). Thesis: Sir John A.Macdonald was one of the founding fathers, but William Lyon Mackenzie King had to lead the country through the part of Depression and WWII, and they both have made different positive contributions to Canada and are highly respected